Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-03

Is being rebuilt.
son Sunday evening.
Eighty new residences have been built this
year at Portsmouth.
The Prohibi,ioaists OF Holt county have pur
a full ticket IA the field.
The Knights Of Labor have an orRaniz4 tlo1
at Hanover. Gage county.
E Geo. X. Davis is confined In the jail a Re.
publican City, charged with having two
wives.
The Logan County Reporter made It's frat
appearance Mt Grandy last week, edited by j.
T.. Eargravc.
The Northwestern Sportsman's association
Will holdi s annual shoot at Loup City Sep
TENDER 80 and 81.
There is much r~ustling among Lincoln real
estate dealers In regard to the location Of the
! new opera house.
The yield Of crops In Wayne county Is esti-
, mated as ioiiows. Germ, 40 bushels; oats, SO
bushels; wheat, IS bushels; dax, early, 10;
fax, late, 70 bushels.
Some twenty citizens of Endioott have
ciEENu u VI lLCI pbI btioE Vi TIC EDuls
colt Milling association, and q fourth; mil
viii be built at that place in the near future.
Sid Flyte, a Hitchcock county horse thief,
escaped from jail at Culbertson with tae aid
OF a friend aud IL now roaming at largc, WITH
no particular effort being made TO recaDture
him.
Geo. Smiley a brakeman on No. 9 pas. enger
train from Red Cloud 70 Lincoln, was terribly
crushed between The bumpers while coupling
the air brake In the Crete yard WEDNESDAY,.
DR.. Conrad, the companv's physician NJ Cree,
was summoned, and thinks tic viii pr b,hiy
recover.
During the recent heavy thunder haower
at Springfield, Lightning struck John No
Wrinkle just as he was about to enter his
house. The bolt struck him on the head,
burning a IN al hole In his hat aud singing
the hair OF tb, back Of his head. He was
knocked senseless, but soon recovered.
General Manager Holdredgc is not satisfied
with the decision OF the board OF transporta.
ton IN the application Of the city council OF
Lincoln to compel the railroad to put In IA
ditch and c~uivert, and asks for a rehearing.
He agrees that the company will carry away
the water, bat they no rot want to DO 1t IN
the manner directed by the board.
In the election to bond Nebraska City for
$500 600 for paving and sewerage was q hot
contest. Among the mottocs with which pro-
cessiops OF both sides paraded the street were,
''After Death Comes the Resurrection Vote
for Bondsl" witch WAS followed by a mess
back banner bearing the words, "After the
Resurrection Comes Helll Don't You Vote
for Bonds!n
Articles Of Incorporation Of the Excelsior
Mining company were filed with the secretary
Of state Monday. The OBI ct OF the corpora
ton is TO procure mining lands from the
United States government, the purchase and
sale Of aiming lands, either by CLAIMS or
de eds. The place Of business Is ST Exeter,
Fillmore county, and the corporation shall
| continue for lfty years. The capital stock
Is IS, 1000, 000, and tn. inc0rporators are Jacob
Plug, T. II. l. Lee, DR.. j. C.. Russell, r. NJ.
Ziska, T. B. Farmer, r. j. Foiling, w. II.
Pardu, r. G. McClury, d. II. Miliholland, d.
II. Wentworth, c. A. Sangster, Ell. J. Jon.
gar, j. n. Brum5augh and f. Sandrock.
A destructive hail storm passed over Falls
City. At the end Of the storm all the glass,
except the east side Of every house In the city
was smashed. Fruit Of all kinds was knocked
from the trees and pounded into the earth.
Apple, grape and tomato crops In the dis
trict visited by the hail are completely ruined,
and the corn fields have suffered considerably.
TIE course Of the storm extended as far a.
Verdun, Mae miles on the north, and on the
south to Reserve, Elk mites. As 10 its scope
east and west IL csnnot at this early hour he
learned, but It 10 thought TO be not very
great Nothing like it has ever been kuown
here. The backbone OF the drought is most
eTectually broken by The heavy rain when
has been falling nesriy all day.
The trial OF b. Z. Richardson, Of LOup City,
was concluded about II .'ciock Wednesday
night. All through the trial tue defense
claimed to have worked against the unfair
rulings Of the curt, but after ali Judge
HameI's charge to the jury vas the estcnct of
justice aud law. The jury took the case 10
their room III midnight and az fifteen minutes
after 2 o'clock brought 10 q verdlct Of rot
| guilty. Thus ends the darkest chapter Of
| sherman c%ounty's political strife. On the
2S il dey OF May last Richardson HI ga q man
70 save his life, and on th4t cas- he world
have been lynchcd had the sheriff not oeer
| near at hald 10 protect him Now, on thu
! 25th day Of August, be walk, the streets .
free man. Ii is a fact that Richardson haG
always advocated sioraiity, sybr'e;y and hou-
esty. He ~antagopiz Il II, one but law-breah-
els, With which Loup City had been clracd
more than her share. He says OF his mistake
In publishing the poem that Il ts the ore
thing Of his life he has to regret.
Friend special, Aug %: Az a BohCmian
p.cnic Sunday night, held about ten miles
southwest OF here in fillmore county, John
and Frank Viewers were shot and instantly
killed by, II is supposed, a railroad man. Beer
vas the exciting cause. Six railroadcrs tried
"a steal some ot their beverage, which was on
a wagon In kega, when the proprietor, J"hc
Newer. ipt,'iered with the remark thaI he
w.s "Gl ic ta,!r racket" and slapped ono In
ihe face. A. the same time Johns brother
Frank came up and was Immediately shot
down, The bali striking him IN the back OF the
head. John Never, seeing hts brother sing
dead at his feet, jumped toward the murderer
with the remark, ''The f. Of At has